INS and type 1 diabetes mellitus: Previous studies have shown that T2D was among the factors that negatively affected the SQoL.[19,23,44] The difficulties experienced by women with T2D regarding insulin regulation[27,45,46] and the higher BMI of women with T2D negatively affected the SQoL.[14,47] In addition, in our study, the mean age of women with T2D (45.02) was higher than that of women with T1D (35.39).